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Asher Desai

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Asher Desai @asherdesai.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Simplest answer to me is this: Social media has been cooking our brains for a while, but COVID disruptions dramatically increased screen time and the extent to which people derive social validation from the internet. Hence, we see a post-COVID disconnect between material reality and public opinion.
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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC. Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The thing about capping credit card interest is that you could think it’s good policy for people likely to get caught in debt cycles to have less access to credit. I have the intuition this is right. *But* advocates frame it as cheaper access to credit, as opposed to less access to credit.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
math
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I find it so frustrating that so much discourse amongst democrats is around language policing and like “abundance” vs “populism”. Idgaf what exact words politicians use. I just want authenticity showing that they 1) care about our problems and 2) have real solutions. not poll tested nonsense
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
For those asking why I am asking about ICE funding NOW, the government runs out of money this month and Congress has yet to pass the Homeland Security bill. ICE won’t be abolished, but Democrats can hold up the bill
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Abolish ICE. Really.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
I think this is vaguely correct in that Obama ran both his 2008 and 2012 campaigns in such a vicious and cut-throat manner, while his Republican opponents for the most part stood there and took it for the sake of “decorum”, that it destroyed the already frayed and worn concept of political decorum entirely

But of course Thomas had to make it a race thing and find a way to make it all Republicans fault for being racist for… reasons

I dunno, Chatterton Williams makes good points sometimes and is probably the best The Atlantic has, but also being the best The Atlantic has at this point probably isn’t saying much
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.
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Asher Desai @asherdesai.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Zohran actually had the binders full of women
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I just want Republicans, and the right generally, to be treated as real adults with agency instead of forces of nature that must be appeased or managed. Is that too much to ask?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.
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Asher Desai @asherdesai.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Cooking isn’t easy to start with, but this is precisely the kind of helplessness cope that makes people dependent on burrito taxi and consequently unable to distinguish between necessities and luxuries.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/11/2025
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
trump has basically been robbing a bank in broad daylight, apparently hoping that the brazenness of the act will scare everyone away from sounding the alarm. but if anyone ever says "hey, wait a second!" - well, now he's suddenly just a guy robbing a bank in broad daylight. good luck with that, bozo
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Writing about all this AI bubble stuff, I cannot help thinking about one of my favorite financial fictions, Émile Zola’s Money, and its brilliant deconstruction of the psychology and mechanics of an investment boom. advaitcore.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
advaitcore.substack.com
The dance of millions
Making sense of the big bubble.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
you don’t solve the issue by eliminating the immigrants, you solve it by eliminating the racists
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Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2025
i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2025
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2025
not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17/11/2025
This take suffers from the same thing as all discourse about Trump voters: an inability to distinguish swing voters from Trump’s base. You should welcome the swing voters, people who were worried about inflation or whatever, but the chuds? The best you can do is bullying them into staying home.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
pictured: the most advanced levels of Republican economic theory
correlation vs causation
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13/11/2025
democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3 they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
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Asher Desai @asherdesai.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Maybe I just didn’t see, but did the FTC only just now update the website that the microeconomics conference is cancelled? Seems a bit late given that it’s tomorrow!
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Asher Desai @asherdesai.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Paul Begala (quoted here) represents the biggest dumbass line I’ve seen about this election. “Mamdani barely broke 50% and Spanberger won by more, therefore Mamdani sucks” He was running against another Democrat! Cuomo was the conservative in the race, but ultimately he is a Dem!
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I did warn you the Takes™️ were coming Now, after months of incredible parochialism about how the NYC mayoral race tells us <everything> about The National Democrats, Mamdani tells us nothing & winning is bad for the left The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2025
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
the most obvious way for Zohran to tie his climate and affordability promises together is to get New York to build hundreds of thousands of transit-oriented apartments
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend at the R.J.C. event. “Here’s what I do know: You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/10/2025
one of the things i think is that policies answer the question of “what will you do” but they don’t answer the question of “why should i vote for you” and i think there is a tendency in this broad conversation to equate the two
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/10/2025
i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I genuinely believe that the next president should arrest Trump first thing. Simply make a national security determination - a thing which falls within the "core powers" of the presidency! - and dare Roberts to overturn his own ruling
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Know when to fold ’em www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/know...
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Know when to fold 'em - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is no longer a difficult question: Graham Platner, an upstart Democratic candidate running to challenge Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins, reportedly acknowledged that his skull-and-crossbon...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/10/2025
it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
molon labe
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2025
wow! almost like the right has an intentional habit of blaminf minority groups for actions, the same groups they coincidently think should be “eradicated”
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Asher Desai @asherdesai.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
More reason for my anti-distance fetishism opinion. Too many recreational runners finish a distance and think the only logical step is to try the next distance up, ignoring the option of improving your time.
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